Word: napkinics
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...runs around the stage, bangs his head with the microphone, pours beer down his shirt, eats a napkin, and generally goes crazy, punctuating each line with a shrill quick laugh, reminiscent of ventriloquist Paul Winchell's dummy Knucklehead...
...first sight, the Dinner Party appears a typical banquet, each setting with porcelain flatware, a translucent chalice, and a goldedged napkin. The plates, however, jump off the stark white table cloth, vivid, enthusiastic and colorful, exuding female sexuality. Beneath each plate, an elaborately hand-embroidered runner illustrates the life of the guest at that place. Continuing the symbolism of the plate, the runners illustrate in the art-forms of the day the lives of the women...
...cabaret scene with figures at a table, in homage to Cézanne's Cardplayers, but the image mutated into still life, leaving the drinkers' legs fossilized, as it were, in the sloping table legs. The great brown half-moon of the tabletop, the bread loaves and fruit and napkin have a plastic intensity that makes one feel ready to pluck them away...
...McGraw smiles and whispers, "I'm just living my life now." Her earnestness is infectious and everyone smiles. In fact, McGraw leaves a trail of fans wherever she goes. As she leaves Channel 56, secretaries clutter around for signatures and as she writes our her name on someone's napkin, she asks one woman what kind of perfume she is wearing and another where she got her arm's length of bracelets. McGraw even consents to posing for a photograph with a man who "wants to drive his wife nuts." She says she doesn't enjoy it but realizes...
...Venetian affair, buoyed by whimsy, is never in danger of sinking into the sea. As always, her precise images linger: "A waiter came forward with a dazzle of black and white, the black being his trousers and hair, the white being his coat, his teeth, and a napkin folded upon his wrist." This is Spark the peerless observer, in the grand tradition of her The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Abbess of Crewe...